Montag And Mildred Quotes & Sayings

The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled. — Flannery O'Connor

I can't take living in this dorm," the voice on speaker says. "My roommate's a fruit loop dingus. — Colleen Hoover

Natural gas is highly explosive, invisible, poisonous, and odorless. Yet we accept natural gas, even though it kills not two but 400 Americans a year, because it was introduced before we got crazy about risk. We accept coal, even though mining it is nasty and filthy and kills dozens of people every year. By contrast, we're terrified of nuclear energy. Chernobyl, the worst nuclear power disaster ever, killed only 30 people. Some say the radiation may eventually kill others, but even if that's true, natural gas kills more people every year. — John Stossel

I was deeply misled by Lady Chatterley's Lover, which seemed to insist that running naked through damp undergrowth with wild flowers entwined in your pubic hair was just about the closest thing to heaven. — Julian Barnes

Their curses were not aimed at any definite target: they swore at such abstractions as God, the Officers, the Mothers of Others, with more music than meaning. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open. — Alfred North Whitehead

He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but can- not please himself. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. — Zora Neale Hurston

To do better is better than to be perfect. — Toba Beta

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years. — Donna Tartt

When he was with a woman, he saw to her welfare with the easy authority of a man who believed it was his responsibility to look after her. — Joey W. Hill

Ruffian he had once been, before Christ and Mrs. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Night coaxed out the stars, my jailers. — Roshani Chokshi

A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. — Elizabeth Gilbert

No man or Genie on earth had "created" anything, we merely assembled God's Atoms, by learning it's properties, with his aid, so if anyone said that we had "invented" anything - he had Invented a lie; an unwise man ... thinks we have created an atom. — Albert Einstein